In the meantime...

While we wait for Ashley's amazing powers of textual polishing, I thought I'd share something with you guys: the first act of the next book, which is unrelated to Blackjack.

It's a fun little book that is inspired by the Indiana Jones movies and the Lara Croft and Uncharted video games. It's my own spin on the subject, and I have a few solid ideas for ongoing stories to tell. I basically wanted to find real archeological and historical relics of significance, things no one had ever written about before, and see what ideas I could come up with.

First off is Heart of the Jungle. I've been working on it, on and off, for almost six months now and I finally have a real good concept to work with, and a bunch of characters that keep calling me to the computer. I posted the cover on facebook a few weeks back, but I've just completed the entire first act of the thing and after a quick read, it looks pretty decent.

So, as a thank you for your patience, I'd like to post it for your review. It's rough, rougher than the versions of Wayward that are out there. I basically wrote it, and gave it a quick read, so it's lacking my editor Josh's polish. Believe me, he makes things so much better. In addition, a lot of the final plot kind of came to me as I was writing it. The final version will need the plot backtracked, several new scenes and a lot of transitions to make the whole thing work. I also want to do a header chapter intro, that gives you the place and time of the scene to come. 

I know it's rough, but if you guys want to take a look at the 80-something page first act, I'd love to put it up (no charge, of course). It'd be my way of apologizing for the delay.

Let me know what you think.

Heart of the Jungle - act one (first draft edit)

http://freepdfhosting.com/b58113b2eb.pdf

Found him!

A huge thanks to Angel for giving me his contact email. Hope you have as much fun reading the book as I had writing it. And stay safe.



“If a man does his best, what else is there?”

-Gen. George S. Patton

Looking for Angel Flowers...

I know you're shipping out in Afghanistan soon. Please send your direct contact info to: fps.editing@gmail.com (mind the period between fps & editing). If I get you before you ship out to the bush, I'll send you a PRE-EDIT Pdf of book 2.

Come on, I'm waiting for you man!

An updated cover and more...

Here's the latest version of the cover...

And the progression for the back cover (if I ever manage to put together a mass market paperback). Blackjack's the little guy, btw...

Update on Wayward

I've been emailing my editor and it's looking more and more like she's going to need another week or two. She needs more time to turn my dunsky English into something that people can understand. Since this is a huge killjoy to you guys, I'm going to give away the first act on what should have been the release date, for free, to give you a nice teaser into the rest of the book.

I'd like to make clear that this isn't Ashley's fault at all, if anything, I'm to blame for writing like a blindfolded monkey. I don't want to do a pre-edit release of the whole thing for $$$ since we had some issues with grammar and spelling the first time. I mean, you look at the thing for so long that the simplest things slip past. It is kind of fun to have Ashley emailing me, "Is the quartermaster of the Lady's Nightmare called Mr. Plancks or Mr. Picklett?" Fun and surreal.